Hope everyone is having a good start to their Wednesday.

This afternoon I’ll be out at the trade and media event for the Paso Robles Grand Taste here in San Diego. Given the relative lack of quality wine being produced in Southern California (no Santa Barbara and Paso Robles are not Southern California, they are part of the central coast) it’s nice to get such a large scale and high quality event here in town. I’m especially happy to be able to attend today because this is the first event of this nature in San Diego since Matt and I started Uncorked Ventures.

I have a number of wineries on my tasting list, some of them for possible inclusion in one of our upcoming wine club shipments and others simply for my personal enjoyment.

The event features some big names in the Paso Robles wine scene and most of the high profile up and coming wineries will be represented as well which is really nice.

Hopefully I’ll be able to grab some video and interviews while I’m there. The only winery I wish was attending that isn’t (no, I’m not going to say Turley) is Terry Hoague whom is starting to build a nice reputation for himself as a winemaker.